disappropriate love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To remove from individual possession or ownership; throw off or aside; get rid of.
  • Specifically To sever or separate, as an appropriation; withdraw from an appropriate use.
  • To deprive of appropriated property, as a church; exclude or debar from possession.
  • Deprived of appropriation; not possessing appropriated church property.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
  • transitive verb To release from individual ownership or possession.
  • transitive verb (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere.

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